Logic and critical thinking

· Develop inferential and argumentative skills
· Learn to identify and reconstruct arguments
· Learn to evaluate arguments, distinguishing good from bad arguments (fallacies)
· Learn to use formal logic tools (elements of propositional and predicate logic) in order to evaluate deductive reasoning
· Learn to use informal logic tools in order to evaluate non deductive reasoning
· Learn to identify and analyse fallacies occurring in political discourse

At the end of the course, the students will be familiar with some of the most important concepts and devices of contemporary logic and critical thinking, they will be able to reconstruct and evaluate complex arguments in political, juridical and economic literature, and will be aware of the most frequent mistakes and fallacies of public communicatio.